3 Jul, 2008 - Featured on rmaspero.com
Often I find myself looking at what apps I am using and how I can save time, a great way to do this is through RescueTime. This is what inspired me to write this post, I am not going to be talking about RescueTime but instead about what it tells me. I want to share what apps I use most (excluding the obvious iTunes, Web-browser and Mail). These apps are based around what I like to do best at the moment, this is mostly to communicate and Web developement.
Twitterific
This may seem like an obvious one for most people who are geeks, becasue most of them use Twitterific (who lie on the Mac) but some use Twirl (an Adobe Air based app so can work on Mac and Windows). I think Twitterific is much better and looks great and with it coming to the iPhone I can’t wait to try it out on that. It is one app that lets you communicate easily and quickly.
Price: $14.95 (FREE with ads)
Flow
In my opinion the best FTP app out there.
Flow is cheap and has some really good features. The work flow is as in the name, it just flows. The UI is very sleek and really nice to work with but it can be a bit temperamental as it is still a young app.
Price: $29
Awaken
Awaken is an alarm in in simplest terms but is far more. It also has an egg timer and has neat features such as screen and volume fade. I use it as my alarm to wake me up and to keep me on time to do things.
Price: $12.95
Textwrangler
Textwrangler is the free version of
BBEdit and is well worth downloading if you want to do any plain text editing. If you are looking for a paid version with a few more features I would recommend
TestMate ($64) over BBEdit but Textwrangler is great for the price label and I have yet to find a problem with it.
Price: FREE
CSSEdit
This is by far the coolest app I have ever seen and without it I would have probable never really understood CSS. I have done a
review of it and that explains what it does best. If you do anything to do with CSS I would suggest you have a look at it.
Price: $29.95
I am not a fan of spending money and often like to go for the free option, but in the case of all these apps here, if they do have a price they are worth buying (Twitterific is fine with ads there is no need to buy it). I hope I showed you some cool apps you might try.
2 Jul, 2008 - Featured on talkingincircles.net
I’m working on other stuff. BBL.
2 Jul, 2008 - Featured on tech-buzz.net
We knew that subscription-based software solution from Microsoft was quite imminent. Microsoft finally opened-up on their new software subscription bundle called Microsoft Equipt. Every Equipt license comes with the latest version of Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 and Windows Live OneCare antivirus software. It will be launched somewhere around mid-July in over 700 Circuit City stores in US.
It will cost $69 per year, which works out to be just $5.75 per month. Sounds like a reasonable price for something which retails for $110 (Microsoft Office) + $30 (Windows Live OneCare subscription/year). Plus, you’ll always get the latest version of the software in your package.
Your single Microsoft Equipt license work good in three computers, so if you actually break it down by per-PC, it cost sounds really reasonable. I’d be happy to see Microsoft Equipt go on sale in other parts of the globe as well, but right now it seems as if Microsoft wants to try it in U.S only.
[Via: CyberNet]
2 Jul, 2008 - Featured on derrickkwa.com
I remember when I bought my hard guitar case. It was a relatively new/unique design, that’s less common. Even now, I rarely see people use it. But it’s lighter than normal hard cases, with just as much protection.
When I first bought the case, the store owner demonstrated the case to me. How? He used one of his own store guitars, put it in the case and tossed it on the floor. Literally. Practically like how the airline people tend to toss luggages. And the guitar was perfectly fine.
That one demonstration went really far in my decision to buy that case. The fact that the store owner was willing to risk one of his own guitars to demonstrate the case (which was cheaper than the guitar, definitely) showed how much he believed in it. And it made me believe too.
Would you be willing to take that kind of risk for your product? How much do you believe in your product? How much would you risk for it? (For those thinking about your personal brands, substitute “product” with “beliefs”.)
Because if you don’t believe in it enough to take the risk, and believe in your product, your customers are much less likely to either.
